Thank you very much.
We certainly appreciate that you have come today and given us an overview with regard to agriculture in Canada. It's obviously disappointing that we don't have the minister here to question with regard to the direction in which he intends to take the department. Within the mandate letter we got a little bit of information as to what the Prime Minister's mandate was for the minister to undertake; unfortunately, we didn't get a sense of.... It's very vague, the letter to the minister.
I have one question that I might be able to ask. The department must be undertaking a discussion with the provinces with regard to the Growing Forward program. Are you aware of, or can anybody give us a sense of, where the negotiations or the talks with the respective provinces are in terms of the renewal and the funding of that renewal?